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"Mythology: Arabic Ophiuchus - Greek Aesculapius - Egyptian Akhenaton"

Akhenaton or Akhenaten also Ikhnaton originally Amenhotep IV as King during the 18th Dynasty of Egypt (1,375?/50-1,358?/1334 B.C.) who rejected the old gods and initiated a new form of sun worship of Aton. He abandoned the state religion of Amon and removed it from all monuments. Akhenaton (he who is beneficial to Aton) a name chosen by himself Amenhotep IV believed that Re was the god of the whole world and the only god, beginnings of monotheism. He demanded that all subjects worship only the sun god under the name Aton. Of course this did not go over very well with a society that was use to a pantheon of gods.
Tell el-Amarna the site of Akhetaton, his capital, where many of the tablets found refer to invaders called the Habiru. Some feel this was the Hebrews, others say it is a non-Semitic people.
"Twenty-one being a number sacred to the Sun since the time of the Pharaoh Akhenaton who introduced into Egypt about the year 1,415 B.C. the monotheistic cult of the sun's disc. Epicharmus, as an Asclepiad (Asclepius was a Greek god of medicine and son of Apollo), was descended from the Sun."

Aten was the God of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, originally known as Amenhetep IV. By the 18th Dynasty, circa 1,400 B.C., the power base of the Egyptian state moved from Heliopolis, home of Ra the Sun God, to Thebes, home of the god Amun. Amenhetep IV, declared that all the many Egyptian gods were false; including Amun-Ra. Henceforth the only god to be worshipped was to be Aten. The idea of monotheism, was alien to a people who saw gods in every natural phenomenon about them. The worship of Aten lasted exactly as long as the life of the king, who was a man out of his time.

Aton also Aten was an Egyptian god of the sun, regarded during the reign of Akhenaton as the only god.

The Egyptian "Book of the Dead," ascribes possibly to the date of 3000 B.C. Hermes Trismegistus the Egyptian god Thoth (of the moon and of wisdom and learning), the legendary author of works on alchemy, astrology, and magic [Medieval Latin Hermes Trismegistus, from Greek Hermes trismegistos : Hermes, Hermes + trismegistos (tris, thrice; see trisoctahedron + megistos, greatest; see ALMAGEST)].

Almagest a comprehensive treatise on astronomy, geography, and mathematics compiled by Ptolemy about A.D. 150. It is also any of several medieval treatises concerned with astronomy or alchemy [Middle English almageste, from Old French, from Arabic al-majisti : al, the + Greek megiste (suntaxis), greatest (composition), feminine of megistos, greatest, superlative of megas, great].